Why did he do it? Why did President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Son of the South, the epitome of the Southern Democrat, force the U.S. Congress to pass the Great Society programs? These questions have haunted historians and political pundits for decades. Now, in a moving, enlightening and revealing historical narrative, Don E. Peavy, Sr. reveals in Disaster Among the Heavens, a compelling reason for the unprecedented and bewildering actions of former President Johnson. Based on research of many governmental documents following the great declassification which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Peavy pieces together a shocking tale of how close America came to disaster as the result of a group of black revolutionists from Chicago who were able to take over NORAD and hold America hostage until the Great Society programs were enacted. It seems ironic that another African American from Chicago has been elected president of the USA to lead a different kind of revolution. Disaster is a commentary on disaster movies and a parody of novels and our culture. It is fast paced action with twists at every turn. Satire, humor, wit, and a keen sense of history and culture are employed to create a myth that transforms senseless violence into the etiology of President Johnson's Great Society Programs. A disillusioned physician and a prostitute find themselves in a subterranean bunker at NORAD in Colorado with the dying leader of a failed Black revolution. They accept this twist of fate and draft a Black manifesto that is sent to President Johnson who is given 72 hours to adopt it or they will launch NORAD's intergalactical missiles towards the moon which will result in the moon being pushed beyond its Roche limit and catastrophic storms and disturbances on earth. Tension builds as America's military intelligence and might are activated to retake NORAD and avert war with the Soviet Union.
Don E. Peavy, Sr., teaches religious studies at Victor Valley College as well as philosophy, ethics, and religion at the University of Phoenix, Southern California Division.
Prior to moving to Southern California, Peavy practiced law in Fort Worth, Texas, his hometown, after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. He left the practice of law to enter active ministry. He graduated from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University and pursued a PhD. at Claremont Graduate University in theology, ethics, and culture. Until recently, Peavy served as the pastor of McCarty Memorial Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Los Angeles, California.
Peavy now resides in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines where he is finally able to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. "Disaster" is Peavy's first novel. He has had published two nonfiction works: a book on Christian ethics entitled, "What Must I Do?": Bridging the Gap Between Being and Doing, which was published by Kendall/Hunt in 2006 and a book of philosophy, "Play It Where It Lies": How to Win at the Game of Life, published by Hamilton Books in 2007.
